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Canada's Western Standard magazine charged for publishing Danish cartoons
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| March 30, 2006
| Ezra Levant
Posted on 03/30/2006 6:22:35 AM PST by GMMAC
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Please note: The so-called "Alberta Human Rights Commission" is the same unaccountable, quasi-judicial, agenda-driven, kangaroo court which mas made a regular practice of harassing Calgary's Catholic Bishop Fred Henry for daring to oppose gay "marriage" & defend the Church's teachings on homosexuality & the traditional family.
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:22:38 AM PST
by
GMMAC
To: fanfan; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...
PING!
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:23:28 AM PST
by
GMMAC
(paraphrasing Parrish: "damned Liberals, I hate those bastards!")
To: GMMAC
There's a difference between "charged" and "sued" - which is it?
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:24:30 AM PST
by
wideawake
To: GMMAC
Isn't Ezra Levant a lawyer?
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:29:05 AM PST
by
Snowyman
To: GMMAC
Perhaps the Charter of Rights that guarantees our freedom of the press should be banned, too. When you adopt strong hate speech laws like Canada has, you pretty much flush freedom of the press down the toilet.
To: GMMAC
All I wanted to know about muslims I LEARNED ON 9/11.
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:31:40 AM PST
by
BIGZ
To: wideawake
With quasi-judicial bodies like the so-called "Alberta Human Rights Commission" it's pretty much the same thing:
A "victim" goes before it and the "evil oppressor" is usually ordered under the full force of law both to desist in its politically incorrect conduct & to cut a sizable cheque to soothe the "victim's " hurt feelings.
Should the "evil oppressor" fail to comply, the full weight of the regular Courts - which are also the venue for any appeals of such rulings - are then brought to bear.
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:33:07 AM PST
by
GMMAC
(paraphrasing Parrish: "damned Liberals, I hate those bastards!")
To: GMMAC
Didn't Alanis Morrisette put on a big show about how Canadians were "more free" to express themselves that us stupid yokels down here in the US?
Guess that only applies to perversions and such.
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:38:17 AM PST
by
FormerLib
(Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
To: GMMAC
Thank GOD we have THIS down here....
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:39:44 AM PST
by
Crispus Attucks Patriot
(The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
To: Crispus Attucks Patriot
--to ad we don't have a Congress and Supreme Court that can read the first five words in context---McCain -Feingold comes to mind--
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:46:47 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
To: rellimpank
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posted on
03/30/2006 6:47:20 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
To: GMMAC
Alberta! Ceceed from Canada! Join the U.S.--we need you! Join us in the fight against the Left!
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posted on
03/30/2006 7:03:41 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Bogus arguments are a tip-off that you wouldn't buy the real reason..." ~Thomas Sowell)
To: GMMAC
Dear Ezra:
I will gladly offer a donation of $2,500 for your noble efforts, but under one condition: Shut down your Canadian operations and move your operations to Montana or Idaho.
Sincerely,
Alberta's Child
To: wideawake
It is ostensibly "sued" -- but all that the "plaintiff" has to do is to file a complaint and the commission does the rest, including evidence gathering, preparation of witnesses and advocating the complaint before the tribunal, which is itself.
The "respondent" has all the burden of defending himself, including evidence gathering, preparation of witnesses, and paying for lawyers, totally unaided by the commission.
The proceedings can become protracted until the defendent decides that his choice is to bear a heavy cost or enter into a plea deal. The fine is usually less than the cost of defending the action so the defendent usually caves. He thereby brands himself as a violator of human rights and gives the commission ammunition to use against the next person or organization that it chooses to harrass.
Need I say that the composition of the commission is usually left wingers with an activist history.
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posted on
03/30/2006 7:34:43 AM PST
by
Clive
To: GMMAC; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; coteblanche; Ryle; albertabound; mitchbert; ...
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posted on
03/30/2006 7:36:12 AM PST
by
Clive
To: GMMAC; freepatriot32
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posted on
03/30/2006 7:48:57 AM PST
by
fanfan
( We have become the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world.)
To: Clive
IMO these so called Human Rights Commissions are abhorrent.
I hope the Conservatives get rid of them.
Are they a Federal or Provincial jurisdiction?
To: concrete is my business
"Are they a Federal or Provincial jurisdiction?" Provincial.
But they are sll essentially constituted alike and all behave in the same manner.
And they seem to be immune to the prerogative writs remedies such as certiorari or quo warranto and because of that the common law principle that a tribunal must afford natural justice is honoured in the breach.
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posted on
03/30/2006 8:23:41 AM PST
by
Clive
To: albertp; Allosaurs_r_us; Abram; AlexandriaDuke; Americanwolf; Annie03; Baby Bear; bassmaner; ...
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here
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posted on
03/30/2006 8:24:52 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Crispus Attucks Patriot
Thank GOD we have THIS down here.... Umm i hate to break it to you but we dont have that anymore since bush signed mcstain swinegold into law
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posted on
03/30/2006 8:29:27 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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